I don't know about that guy. I'll say this... He appears to be young and like he gets excited very easily. He's also upset more than a few groups and
tends to post before he thinks or verifies what he's posted. I don't think he would be involved in anything like that, way beyond him.

Honestly, that attack was beyond most anon and I think that's why Politico was stressing that we don't know who did it and even pointing out that
groups will attribute things to themselves erroneously.

I think all Anon info should be taken with a grain of salt as the saying goes.

I don't know about that guy. I'll say this... He appears to be young and like he gets excited very easily. He's also upset more than a few groups and
tends to post before he thinks or verifies what he's posted. I don't think he would be involved in anything like that, way beyond him.

Honestly, that attack was beyond most anon and I think that's why Politico was stressing that we don't know who did it and even pointing out that
groups will attribute things to themselves erroneously.

I think all Anon info should be taken with a grain of salt as the saying goes.

That said, i gotta admit I have a feeling Assange is taken. These last couple days have been very wierd.
Something really big happened.

I think, the internet outage is a message being sent, by those who what has happend to him.

Lawrence Orans, a research vice president at Gartner specialising in web security and DDoS attacks, agreed with Mr Schneier's analysis. “An
attack of this magnitude can’t be executed by a kid in his bedroom,” he said. “It’s more sophisticated than that. A nation state would be a
prime suspect.”

The US authorities are thought to be concerned that such attacks could be used in an attempt to somehow disrupt the coming presidential election. The
Department of Homeland and Security and FBI were both investigating Friday’s attack, Reuters reported.

That's fair. I try to look at all possibilities until there's a verified outcome and it looks like he could be MIA.

That looks like a rational stance until there's a reason to think otherwise.

a reply to: Morrad
That's interesting. For a brief moment during the attack I was able to get on Norse and snipped out a
screenshot. If the spin is going to be that it was Russia, I'd like to see some
evidence of that. But they won't provide it.

I was on the phone with a source, it was someone who has a slot in a organization that deals with national security.

First, 10s of millions of I.P.s (originating) were logged in today's attack.

Here's what struck me as intriguing, "The only entity that had something to gain was the government" and it has......

Secondly, the only entity that has the resources to sustain a attack of this size and scope ( its still under way )
there again is the government.

The Russians and the Chinese were very quick in the AM to deny involvement and the electronic record confirms that.

Are we to believe that a rag-tag bunch of hackers were able to mount a sophisticated attack that is / was far greater than anything that has ever been
seen before ???
As well , on a scale greater than or equal to that of nation/state with advanced cyber warfare capabilities.

This week, the US government-backed ICS-CERT warned that the troubling new generation of computer attacks is powered by malware that can infect
cellular modems used to connect automotive and industrial equipment to the Internet.

Over the past month or so, Mirai has infected hundreds of thousands of networked cameras and other so-called Internet of Things devices. It then
corrals them into networks that bombard websites with so much data they can't be accessed by legitimate visitors. Mirai is currently one of two known
IoT botnet engines that has infected at least 1.2 million devices and is creating some of the biggest distributed denial-of-service attacks ever
recorded. The Mirai source code was released to the public two weeks ago, an event that could make the scourge even worse.

Russia attacks a DNS company that happens to run reddit, twitter, etc. at 7am EST (When A LOT of Americans get up for work)
Russia stops the DNS attack around 9AM EST then restarts the attack at 12PM EST (When A LOT of Americans go to lunch)
Russia downs the internet of most major US cities (See red map)
** Armed men show up at the embassy **

Nothing for 3 hours

Then the tweet "...We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. You've proved your point.''

So the Russian's that hacked our government to interfere with the election by doctoring thee e-mails decided to black out the major US cities around
the time when most Americans were getting up for work, and then again, when they were going to lunch?

Your quote there, did you paste that in when people were blocking up highways for hours on end (even jamming up people nearly dying in ambulances), or
do you only say that stuff when people slow down the information superhighway?

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